Display box



Aug. 4, 1925.

1,548,663 E. F. CULLEN DISPLAY BOX Filed July 29, 1924 272 vena?" Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

Parana oei-ica EDWARD F. CULLEN, 0F BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS,

nisPLAY Box.

Application filed July 29,

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, Enwann li?. CULLEN, aV citizen of the United States of America, residing at Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of liassachnsetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Display Boxes, ofA whichy the following is a specification.

This invention relates to display boxes or containers adapted for holding crackers, cookies and the like, in stores, so that the contents ofthe container are encased and protected while being visible for inspection by prospective customers.

It has been heretofore customary to provide square containers of sheet metal for this purpose that have been provided with a square sheet metal cover flanged to fit down closely upon the top of the box or container, this cover having its major interior portion cut away and provided with an inserted glass pane through which the contents of the box are exposed.

Thus this type of square cover, with its transparent glass insert, has become a standard article in stores handling cookies and crackers, and the merchant usually has on hand a considerable number of such covers. It is however, often convenient, and more economical for the manufacturer to supply his product in larger boxes which are often made o-f wood, paper board, or the like, and a considerable part of the product has come to be packed in oblong wooden boxes of a width corresponding to that of the standard metal containers, before mentioned, and of twice the length of such metal containers.

There has heretofore been no practicable and economical way of displaying attractively the contents of such wooden or paperboard boxes without removing the contents therefrom and putting them into the square metal containers, which of course requires time and disturbs the original packing of the crackers.

The` object of the present invention is to provide means whereby the standard square metal box cover above mentioned, with its glass insert, may be fitted and applied to such oblong wooden or like boxes so as to fit the same closely and present an attractive appearance for display of the goods, To this end I produce the oblong box as usual, but provide in the top portion of the sides thereof midway of its ends, slots or channels 1924. serial-n0. 728,820.

adapted to receive the flanges of twogstandaad square metal covers which are fitted and applied to the respective end portions of the wooden box, and which together make a complete cover therefor.

The foregoing and other objects andA advantages of the inventionV will more fully appear from the following detailed descriptionv taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the distinctive features of novelty will be pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings- Figure 1 is a plan view of a box equipped with the invention, and showing one of the ietal cover units applied to one end of the box;

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the box with both cover units applied thereto; and

Figure 3 is a transverse section on line 3--3 of Fig. 2.

10 indicates an oblong box which may be of wood, paperboard, or the like, of suitable depth, and of a length illustratively shown as twice the width thereof, although in a broader aspect of the invention, the length might be any exact multiple of the width.

In accordance with my invention, the longitudinal sides of the box are channeled or slotted midway of their length from the top downward, as indicated at 11, 12, to a depth sufficient to receive the down-turned flanges 13a of square cover units 13, these channels or slots being o-f suilicient width to receive the adjacent flanges of two such cover units which are applied and fitted to the two end portions of the box, as seen in Fig. 2. These cover units 13 are of the usual standard type found in stores handling crackers, biscuits and cookies, and comprise a square sheet metal frame 13b from which the flange or shroud portions 18a depend, such frame having its major interior port-ion cut out as indicated at 13c and a glass pane 141A applied thereto. Thus these standard transparent metal cover units 13 are adapted to be instantly and easily applied to the wooden or like boxes 10 upon removal of the original wooden or like cover thereof, and when so applied, two of these metal cover units make a complete cover and closure for the box while presenting an attractive transparent front for the display of the goods.

l am aware that the invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof, and I therefore desire the present embodiment to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, reference being had to the appendedclams rather than to the foregoing description to indicate the scope of the invention.

rHaving described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is :-Y i

1. An oblong box having the longitudinal sides thereof slotted intermediate the length thereof| from the top downward, and flanged metallic cover units litted to the respective end portions ci said box and having'the flanges at the inner sides of such cover units received in suchslots.

2. An oblong, rectangular boi:` of wood or the like having the longitudinal sides thereof slotted from the top downwardly midway of their lengt-h, and flanged met-allie cover units applied to the respective end portions of such box with the flanges at the'inner sides of such unit-s fitting in such slots, said cover units having their major interior portions eut away and fitted with transparent panes. Y

In testimony whereof I affix my Ysignature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD F. CULLEN. 

